Chapter 1327: The problem of sub-light speed (2/2)
”Yes it is.”
Professor Mo Xuan nodded and said, ”This is purely a hammer business. If this explorer is lost in the depths of the dark nebula, we will not even have the ability to organize a rescue team. We can only give up this task completely and wait for someone to Take the initiative to find the door!”
”And this is not the most special part of this task.”
”Uh?”
Li Yao was dumbfounded, ”It's all so exaggerated, and it's not the most special. What's the problem?”
”The problem is that the speed of Mars is too fast. It is not only the first in the Three Realms, but also several times ahead of the second place, reaching a true sublight speed!”
Si Kou Lie took the words and said: ”It can immediately accelerate to the'sub-light speed' state after just completing the star sea jump. This is the biggest reason why we chose it to explore the dark nebula.”
”It is not good?”
Li Yao didn't understand, ”Since Mars can repeat multiple star-sea jumps, and has the ability to sail at sub-light speeds, and it has been modified from the Pangu clan escape capsule, it has a high probability of receiving signals from the other party. It’s tailor-made for this exploratory mission. It’s fast, so what’s wrong?”
”Have you ever heard of the'clock reduction effect”?”
Si Kou Lie smiled bitterly, ”Simply put, when an object gradually approaches the speed of light, the time around it will rapidly slow down, and the space will shrink quickly. The closer it is to the speed of light, the less the meaning of time and space. Once it reaches the speed of light, the meaning of time and space becomes thinner. , Time will stop, and space will collapse to a point, entering a state of'zero time and space'!”
”Achieving or even surpassing the speed of light, this is our technological level, something completely unimaginable, so the state of'zero time and space' is just our guess.”
”However, at a state close to the speed of light, time is relatively slow, but it is a fact that can be observed and confirmed.”
”In our previous interstellar voyages, most of the time we relied on star-sea jumps and bypassed the barrier of the'speed of light'. During regular voyages, our starships seldom can maintain a sub-light speed state, and rush up for a few seconds at most. It's just a bell!”
”So, even if the phenomenon of'clock shrinkage' really exists, the impact on us is minimal and can be ignored.”
”This mission is different.”
”First of all, the ”Mars” performing this mission is the fastest starship in the Three Realms, breaking through the sub-light speed at every turn and maintaining it for a long time; secondly, it is destined to fly at the sub-light speed for a long time before it is possible to find hidden. A mysterious world deep in the dark nebula!”
”The combination of these two factors means that for the explorer who controls the Mars, his perception of the passage of time is different from the people who stay in the three realms of Tianyuan, Feixing, and Blood Demon!”
”Perhaps in his opinion, it was only a year and a half of exploration, but in the Three Realms, decades have passed in a hurry.”
”Do you understand, Li Yao?”
Professor Mo Xuan sighed, ”If we really want to explore this mysterious world, we can only send an explorer. Even for him, the exploration, mapping, and positioning have been completed smoothly and cleanly. When arriving at the Heavenly Origin Realm, it is very likely that decades or even hundreds of years have passed!”
”This is the most special and most tangled exploratory task in the'Sky Road Project'.”
”In other large worlds, the navigation path is relatively clear, the location is relatively clear, and there is not much interference. If you can find the best, you will immediately jump to the new star field to find the next one. There is really no gain. You can return to the Commonwealth, reunite with your family, and promote other projects within 1 year or up to ten years.
”On this task alone, the uncertainty is too great, and the time is too long and too long!”
Li Yao and Ding Lingdang were silent at the same time.
The slow-down effect of the clock?
The closer to the speed of light, the slower the passage of relative time?
Will it take at least decades to perform such an exploratory mission?
This was something that the two of them had never thought of before they came together.
”No matter how difficult this task is, how long it takes, or how expensive it is, we must perform it, right?”
Li Yao paused and said seriously, ”Because, we can never watch a mysterious world emerge from our side, and greet us with a grin, but ignore it. There is no reaction, right?”